Lawyer of demobilized paramilitaries killed
Oswaldo Ochoa Garcia, a lawyer representing demobilized paramilitaries, was assassinated in downtown Bogota, W Radio reported Thursday. Ochoa was travelling in a taxi when two gunmen on a motorcycle shot…
Oswaldo Ochoa Garcia, a lawyer representing demobilized paramilitaries, was assassinated in downtown Bogota, W Radio reported Thursday. Ochoa was travelling in a taxi when two gunmen on a motorcycle shot…
Colombian police Tuesday arrested a 17 year-old suspected of murdering Ebert Mosquera, the dean of economics at the University of Santiago in the south Colombian city of Cali. The youth…
Colombian investigators believe that the massacre of six people in the country’s north-west Cordoba department may be linked to a bloody turf war between rival drug trafficking gangs in the…
Colombia’s Omdusman Volmar Perez Sunday expressed concern about death threats, massacres and forced displacement committed by illegal armed groups in the north-west Colombian department of Cordoba. Perez said that the…
President Alvaro Uribe on Wednesday disputed the findings of a damning report released by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), which showed that almost half the 101 trade unionists murdered…
Colombian authorities reinforced security measures for Bogota judge Stella Jara, who is in charge of the trial against retired army colonel Alfonso Plazas Vega, due to reports that judicial figure is…
Polo Democratico’s vice presidential candidate said Wednesday that his running mate Gustavo Petro is the object of another assassination plot. “Two sources informed us of an armed car bomb… and of…
A group of unknown assailants stabbed Marco Romero, the director of CODHES, a Colombian NGO that campaigns for human rights and against forced displacement, while he was walking through central Bogota…
The Washington Post reveals allegations by Spanish Judge Eloy Velasco that the FARC guerrilla group asked Spain’s ETA to assassinate Colombian presidential candidate Antanas Mockus. In an article on Venezuelan…